01 May 2009

A few titles from the upcoming prayer book

The book manuscript is slowly approaching its First Draft Form. . .almost ready to be sent to my lovely editor, Deb, at Liguori!

I thought I would share a few titles from the table of contents:

Three Mystical Novenas (Via Negativa, Via Positiva, Via Sophia)
Litany to Mary, Co-redemptrix
Novena of the Lord's Prayer
Litany to the Unsayable God
Novena Sacramentum caritatis (as in Pope Benedict's post-synodal exhortation)
Litany on the Way
Psalm Novena for Growing in Holiness
Novena for the Discernment of a Priestly Vocation

How's that sound?

6 comments:

  1. .
    "How's that sound?"

    Three Mystical Novenas
    Sounds mysterious
    :)
    Ok-
    Sounds like Father Son HolySpirit are a thought or heartbeat away

    Litany to Mary, Co-redemptrix
    Sounds pointed corrective relentless

    Novena of the Lord's Prayer
    Sounds creative obedient comprehensive grounding reining-in

    Litany to the Unsayable God
    Sounds vast consuming words-for-the-way-to-wordlessness

    Novena Sacramentum caritatis
    Sounds Latin
    :)
    Ok-
    Sacrament of Charity?
    Sounds inspired of Jesus

    Litany on the Way
    Sounds like the first one I'll read (to feed my own work, my own evolving expressed definition of the Way and the way)

    Psalm Novena for Growing in Holiness
    Sounds anchored sweeping

    Novena for the Discernment of a Priestly Vocation
    Sounds loved of the Father

    All in all, given the thoughtful logical militant champion of the faith we have in you, and your orthodox 'base of operation,' and your precision and adeptness with words, I must ask: may I have my copy now please?

    God be with you, Fr. Philip Neri Powell, 0P

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  2. Ah, Apiring! I can always rely on you for thoughtful (and funny) comments...

    A copy right now, uh? Well, not even my editor has a copy yet...but she will by Monday morning!

    The three mystical novenas are: via positiva, via negativa, and vis Sophia...how's that sound?

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  3. Oh that... yes, yes... theme of (Pseudo-)Dionysius... referenced often by Aquinas I daresay.... theosis by way of expressive progressive discernment of what God is and, then, is not, like...

    Ok, so I'm winging it here. I'm open to correction if necessary.
    :)

    I'm enthused to learn how you will present Sophia alongside this spectrum of method and result. I'm not asking. I'll wait to read it not-tomorrow.
    :)

    In answer to 'how's that sound?'

    Sounds like you're going to break molds, engage minds, enrich our experience - in a word, enable us further. Channeling your gifts to our prayer, Father

    +

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  4. p.s. Channeling "your gifts" - not as in gifts from you, but as in gifts to you and shared beyond you. (Perhaps such, constitutes a generational spiritual inheritance, not unlike the body's generational genetic material inheritance.)

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  5. Anonymous4:04 PM

    Let's see: Mary as co-redemptrix, yet she did not (or could not) have her feet washed at the Last Supper. Hmmm

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  6. Anon.,

    Correct. But I'm not clear on what the foot washing of the apostles has to do with Mary's Yes at the annunication...

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